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You have completed Create a Portfolio Using Python and Flask!
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In this final video, we’ll cover hosting our portfolio for free on render.com.
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Welcome back.
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In this video, we'll cover getting our
portfolio live hosted on render.com.
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That way, you can showcase your
stellar work with everyone.
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Let's take a quick peek at
the Render documentation.
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All right it looks like Render utilizes
the G unicorn python web server, package.
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We'll need to install that
in our project as well then.
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Perfect, it looks like they're
also assigning the name
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space to a variable named app,
just like we are, okay.
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For step two, we'll need to remember
to create a new web service on render.
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And for step 3, it appears that we will
need to create a requirements.txt file,
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so that render will know what Python
packages our project utilizes.
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Then, instead of running python3
app.py like we would locally,
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we will need to have the render start
command use g-unicorn-app, colon-app.
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The app on the left side of
the colon is the name of the file.
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The app on the right side is the variable
name that the namespace is assigned to.
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Good to know.
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Render will automatically rebuild the
deployment when you push changes to your
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GitHub repo.
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It even has a failsafe if
the redeployment fails.
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Let's head back to VS code and
stop our local server then we can install
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the G unicorn package with
pip install G unicorn.
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Awesome.
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Now, that we have installed
G unicorn into our project,
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we can create a requirements.txt file,
which will contain a list of
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the dependencies that need to be
installed to run our portfolio.
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We can create it by typing pip
freeze > requirements.txt.
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Let's take a peek inside of
the requirements.txt file to make sure
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it includes flask and G unicorn.
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Perfect it does.
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Now we just need to update our repo and
push these changes to GitHub.
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That way, we will be able to use the repo
to deploy directly to render.com.
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Let's head to the browser and
go to render.com.
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All right, let's get started.
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Just like with Replit,
we'll sign up using Github Oauth.
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Yep, we'll authorize render and
complete the sign up.
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Let me quickly verify my email.
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I'm just going to Is going to answer
this single required question.
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Feel free to pause me and
fully populate the form.
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If you remember from
the render documentation,
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a Python Flask app will need
to run as a web service.
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So let's create a new web service.
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Just like with Repl.it, we can deploy
directly from our GitHub repo.
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Let's get it connected.
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Again, like Repl.it,
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render gives us the option to select
all repositories or just specific ones.
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In this case, we just want the Portfolio
repo to be visible to render for
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installation Let me quickly
confirm my GitHub password.
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Excellent.
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It found the repo time to connect it
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I'll give it a Simple name
of Brian's Python portfolio.
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Let's scroll down and
see what other options there are.
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Wonderful.
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It pre populated the build and start
commands that we saw in the documentation.
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Let's choose the free tier.
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It looks like it has a few limitations
compared to the paid plans,
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but it'll be more than enough for
our needs.
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We won't need environment variables for
this project, so
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we'll scroll down further.
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Great, all the options we need are set.
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Let's create the instance.
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It will take a little bit for
the instance to spin up and build.
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Let's take a look at it going
through the build process.
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Awesome, the build was successful.
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Let's scroll back up and wait for the in
progress status to change to live for
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the deployment.
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It's live, let's visit the link.
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And there we have it.
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Our portfolio live on the Internet.
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I can't wait to see your portfolios, so
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make sure to share them
in the treehouse discord.
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I'll see you next time.
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